Breaking news tonight. High heat and high anxiety as rolling black outs hit the bay area. The threat of rolling black outs has many Small Businesses bracing for a tough weekend. Blistering record setting heat today and another round for the weekend. I will have the temperatures coming up. A san jose teacher shirtless in a Virtual Class. Now, from abc7, live breaking news. And that breaking news is widespread power out acknowledges and rolling black outs, up to 220,000 pg e customers during this record breaking heat, the rotating black outs should be done for the night. State power grid its the First Time Since 2011. Now, heres a look right now where the biggest problems are. The outage map shows South San Francisco and antioch have the most outages right now, 3,000 customers are in the dark in each of the cities. San matteo county and san rafel have been the trouble spots most of the night. Thats where abc7 is reporter the power came back around the area around 9 30 p. M. , many busine
Reporter the power came bac p. M. , many businesses here telling us they have had to close hours early in the midst of the pandemic when they are trying survive. For example, soul food was supposed to be open, and you can see the doors is are saying the frustrated on over the lack on communication. Thousands left in the dark all across the bay area tonight. No notification and then a all of a sudden we dont have power and its 105 degrees. Reporter Ashley Stephens is one of many of the customers that were without power for hours. Had what about the people who are like on oxygen tanks and have like, food in the freezer and the fridge. Its just, unreal. Reporter many Small Businesses struggling to stay afloat during this pandemic pushed to close the doors hours early. We tried our best to sell what we had available. Stuff that was already cooked so we can sell it out and not have to spoil it. And we tried to push it with our registers but the moment that the system crashed we could no lon
Don lemon. President trump tonight trying to make the case for his wall, calling it critical to security at the border. But did his last ditch effort persuade americans . This is a crisis he wants you to believe is worth shutting down huge swaths of the federal government for, leaving 800,000 employees without pay. A lot of what the president said tonight doesnt hold up to scrutiny. And in their response, the democrats accused him of appealing to fear and ignoring facts, blaming him for the shutdown, which is now in its third week. The secondlongest ever. A lot to talk about. And i want to discuss it with just straight off the bat with journalist maria elena salinas. Good to be with you. Thank you so much, don. Good to talk to you. So, the president began his remarks tonight, maria, by saying that the United States is out of space to detain the people who are coming here. Speaking of crisis of the heart and the soul and the plight of the immigrants coming here. Listen to this and then
Don lemon. President trump tonight trying to make the case for his wall, calling it critical to security at the border. But did his last ditch effort persuade americans . This is a crisis he wants you to believe is worth shutting down huge swaths of the federal government for, leaving 800,000 employees without pay. A lot of what the president said tonight doesnt hold up to scrutiny. And in their response, the democrats accused him of appealing to fear and ignoring fa facts, blaming him for the shutdown, which is now in its third week. The secondlongest ever. A lot to talk about. And i want to discuss it with just straight off the bat with journalist maria elaina salinas. Good to be with you. Thank you so much, don. Good to talk to you. So, the president began his remarks tonight, maria, by saying that the United States is out of space to detain the people who are coming here. Speaking of crisis of the heart and the soul and the plight of the immigrants coming here. Listen to this and t